The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-12-08
ANOTHER LECTURER LOOSE.
Pete Mccartney, the Ex-Convict, VIII Soon
Take the Platform.

La Porte Ind ) Special.
Pete Mccartney, the noted eounterfeiter,
who was discharged from the Northern Indiana
Penitentiary Oct. 81 after serving sentence of
eleven years for counterfeiting, returned last
week to the scene of his imprisonment ON a visit
OF pleasure and business. After his recent re-
lease Pete arrested and taken to Springfield
Ill. charged with completely in some old bank
robbery. In reply to the question, ''How did
you look upon your recent arrest at the compile
ton of your sentence at the northern Indiana
prisonl' Pete said:
Il was perfectly astonished. and, in fact. ex-
pected nothing of the kind. While had been
offender against the law for many years. yet
/ felt that eleven years an atonement for
my many shortcomings. l knew there was
nothing IN the charge, and yet had been pur-
sued fer so many years hardly knew what
would be the result of this latest development
However, when arrived in Springfield and was
placed in Jail my friends soon found me out. and
the following Saturday held regular recep-
ton at the jail and the Monday after leaving
here was as you know, released, and am now
as free and independent man as lives"
Nv hat about counterfeiting, Peter
well L am through with it. l have turned
over to the government all my plates that
amounted to anything, and never want to see
another one. While | made thousands upon
thousands out of the business, the risk
great and it cost me very largely to keep away
from the minions of the law. In fact after L
made my first successful plate lost all interest
in the business. and after that only took spurts
in making the queer The best plates ever
made were the treasury notes of So and $40 and
of my old associates in the business, but with
the exception of one woman, who has since been
converted, have conversed with none of them.
How about the story that you and Brockway
were going to Europe to again engage in the
business2"
''There is not word of truth in it. never
had any dealings with him and have not seen
him since the Philadelphia Centennial How
ever. l EXPECT to &C to Europe next year. accom-
panied by my daughter, Eugenia. I practiced
dentistry in st. Louis for twelve years and
also photo grapher, but for the next year L
propose to lecture on money" for the benefit of
the Convict Home"
Mccartney went from here TO Toledo, ILL.,. to
begin suits to establish his claims to several
farms which have been controlled and held by
his wife. After that he will be ready for the
lecture field The infdeity of his wife has
never been forgiven or forgotten by Pete, and
he AYERS that he will never live with her again.
Pete Mccartney in prison garb and Pete Nc
Cartney in citizens clothes two radically
different persons. From poor, decrepit
vict he has been transformed into ine-looking
old man. His hair, as we'll as his newly grown
beard, is white. and he looks like well-to-do
business He has piercing black eyes. and
in point of ability and shrewdness he is probably
the ablest man who ever occupied a cell in the
northern penitentiary.